Fresh out of the lair of Dreamatrix Game Studios, Legends of Dawn invites players to the brutal northerly reaches of Narr. Survival depends on you, your magic and your sword. What sets Legends of Dawn apart, is the freedom of play expressed in several key attributes that are rarely seen in typical RPG genres.

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February 23

As you can see, we stay with you and we keep improving Legends of Dawn. A lot of time has passed since we released the last LoD patch, but we are a really small team, and juggling with the new features you'll find in this patch is not a small task.

The big news for everyone that had memory performance issues with the game is that Legends of Dawn is now a 64-bit title (and 32-bit too). What does it mean for you? It means the game is not anymore "smothered" with the 2 GB of RAM limitation, which generated a lot of performance issues, even if the player had a "beast" of a PC. Thanks to the new 64-bit engine architecture, the game can now use all the RAM your system has.
What happens if you have a 32-bit Windows installed? You will still have an option to play last version in the 32-bit mode as you already do. Steam will automatically detect your system version. From this 1.30 version all future updates will be made for 64-bit version only. Therefore in order to experience better Legends of Dawn now and in the future we HIGHLY recommend an upgrade to 64-bit Windows operating system if you have more than 2 GB of system RAM.

Another great news is that we upgraded in-game physics implementation, so NVIDIA PhysX is not dependent on external software anymore. NVIDIA PhysX caused many issues in the past, whether in the scenarios where the PhysX driver wasn't recognized, or in the situations where the user simply forgot to install the drivers. This is now solved.

We also added upgrades to world streaming, made smoother animations, and a bunch of other fixes and upgrades. Please find the full list of upgrades below.

Patch 1.30

- 64-bit OS Support:
Game and engine are now 64-bit too. You can choose between 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems, but good news is that memory problems (64-bit) are thing of the past now. Game can now utilize all the RAM you have, well over 2GB per process that is the limit of 32-bit processes.

- Upgraded Physics:
NVidia PhysX is not dependent on external system software anymore. No more separate installation of physics software is required. External physics installation was cause of many problems in the past - from configurations where physics software was not recognized, even though it was installed, to problems with non-steam installations where users simply forgot to install physics software. This is now solved, physics is part of the game itself and should work without any intervention from the user or external software.

- Streaming is upgraded.

- Smoothed Animations.
Animation for all dynamic entities are now smoothed over time when transiting between animation states. This is most noticeable on monsters and player characters.

- Numerous small optimization's and fixes.

- Slight tweaks and changes to monster AI.

What's next for Legends of Dawn?

Some of you may know from our web site and forum that Legends of Dawn was developed as a part of a trilogy. A lot of work has been done in parallel on our upcoming title Wave of Darkness (WoD) while we were developing Legends on Dawn. One of the main reasons we had to upgrade Legends of Dawn to 64-bit is to make it compatible with new features and improvements that we can carry over from WoD which is 64-bit only.

Therefore we are happy to announce that we are already working on our next patch for Legends of Dawn. With that patch we plan to bring a bunch of new updates and (WoD) features. We can't reveal the contents of this patch right now, nor the time of the release, but we will most definitely share info with you as we develop.

We are just about to start Wave of Darkness Kickstarter campaign and soon after that we plan to put WoD in Early Access here on Steam so you will have opportunity to be involved in WoD development and discuss which features you want in LoD as well.

LoD and WoD development will remain simultaneous so it is important to us that Legends of Dawn players understand that support for either game will eventually help both.

We hope that most of you will recognize our efforts and help with constructive suggestions, friendly atmosphere and help us create a joyful experience and outcome oriented helpful community.

About This Game

Fresh out of the lair of Dreamatrix Game Studios, Legends of Dawn invites players to the brutal northerly reaches of Narr. Survival depends on you, your magic and your sword.
What sets Legends of Dawn apart, is the freedom of play expressed in several key attributes that are rarely seen in typical RPG genres. We have poured our passion and creativity into taking you on an enthralling ride away from wearisome reality, by providing you with the choice to be whatever your heart desires, in Legends of Dawn.

Of course, the choices you make during game play does not prevent you from trying something else later, or simultaneously if you wish. You could combine the sword and the magic, be a powerful crafter or anything else. Legends of Dawn liberates from class restrictions unlike real life. Class, race and differences exist within the game but after choosing your own race and gender, all else can be altered without restarting the game.

Another quality that makes Legends of Dawn interesting, is the freedom of direction and movement. Most games force a player to follow the main storyline and forbid any deviation, or significant veering off the set course. Legends of Dawn is more sympathetic to your playing needs. You are free to wander wherever tickles your fancy within the continent, without limitations, under one condition. Stay alive. We have been careful to ensure that the quests only suggest, rather than impose direction of movement. Your journey is in your hands alone.

In addition to all those remarkable features already mentioned, you are bound to notice another cool thing about Legends of Dawn. The absence of loading screen. It would have been so much easier to create a game that would constantly force you to wait before the screen while new contents load, but Dreamatrix is aware that your time is too valuable to waste. We put our heads together and created our very own engine that discreetly streams content in the background, in real time. You are free to enter houses, caves, dungeons, temples, new regions and so much more, without those pesky loading screens interrupting your playing pleasure.

In order to provide you with such blissful range of possibilities, we had to create a rather large world called Narr. The world of Narr in Legends of Dawn, spans across continents through stunning picturesque landscape that stimulates the mind. There are magical regions where the mountains and hills defy gravity, buoyant as balloons. We have also created countless dungeons awaiting for you to discover what mysteries lie within their cold depths, as well as camps, impressive docks and grim fortresses that bear silent witness to battles. Mausoleums and cemeteries also await your exploration. The hikes over unforgiving mountains and canyons are sure to thrill the most ardent explorer. Graceful flying islands and mystical swamps instil a sense of awe that could nudge you to cross the threshold of the serene temples and shrines to pay your respects to the gods of the land. With so much more on offer than is mentioned here, there is no reason why Legends of Dawn should not become your favourite RPG.

Unfinished and badly done game. Even tough I'm from Croatia, same as developers, I just can't find a pro for this game. Overall game is just plainly bad, and another thing not helping the game is that patches are few and far inbetween. Game that looked promising ended as a big dissappointment in the end. Avoid at all costs.

Why is this game still allowed on the steam store?? High end PC worth over 1.6k from just a few months ago and it cant even play it, what kind of space age techonology is needed? I have only ever been able to make a character so ill comment on that, the character models are worse then ARPGs from 4-5 years ago (Titan Quest for example) Ive had the game for over a year, the hairstyles are just different polygons of colour, calling it hair is a joke the only good looking one is the ♥♥♥♥ing bald option. VALVE YOU MUST PUT DOWN YOUR FOOT WITH THIS ♥♥♥♥, I have multiple Early access games some are slow some might not see their promised potential but this is the first game Ive bought on steam in over 10 years that felt like a legitament scam. Do not buy this game, do not buy it, do not buy it.

Look ill be honest with you, i have been playing games for over 20 years now and i know a good game when i find one. I saw the negative posts and reviews on this game and i tought to myself well it can't be that bad? Can it ? WELL LET ME TELL YOU THEY WERE RIGHT!

This game is terrible in almost ALL ITS CONTENTS.

Now if you get it to start first all, congradulation cause i've tried over ten different types of settings resolution; lowest graphic possible low rendering, low distance, no grass, no shadows. great looks id be better off playing a dress-up game. anyways it still lags like my laptop computer was back in 1992. over all i deleted cachefile, restarted computer, run as admin, verified files integrity, changed graphic settings to the lowest and i forget some.

first start of game: bam! it crashes and i can't close it even with task manager, have to wait like 5 mins for it to closewhile i hear the sound of the waves ... but its bugged like so bad...It finaly closes, i try to play it again and it says the app is already running and it just closed?? like omg.

ok these are the reasons why you don't wanna buy this game.

Start game : takes forever to load or even to start so ( i can play skyrim on my laptop and it starts right away) this took 3 mins to load and the screen of the video was not even showing all of the window and it was in a cornered angle like.

Character creation: it is soo bad, it looks like graphics from back in 2000 and im being generous here. There is no clothes options, 3 races, hair looks terrible as the races , 4 different kind of faces that looks old ugly and weird.. a name generator but oh really ?

Story: you must find the dawn relic ( have no idea whats the use of it ) shattered into peice across the world, now manage with that?

bugs :This game will bug so often you will stop counting after a while, stuck in- between a rock. a hill, in a cave behind a chest, crates, omg i forget some.

Okay now lag issues:... you know what i won't even get into the lag cause it looks like the game is on slowmotion for 80% of the time . night time is the worse , from what you just read right here don't buy it, just don't.

the only good thing about this game is the music. God i love the music.

It sucks that this game had to be this way ( first cause i paid for it ) but also because it seemed so promising and this is what i get.

I tried to like this game but in the end I have too many problems with it to keep playing.

1. The achievements in the game and also on Steam either don't work or randomly work. In the game you need to kill X amount of this and that to get the achievements and supposedly something extra when you achieve them. I have killed hundreds of spiders and humans and the game says I have killed some random number like 3 or 17. If it worked it would be cool but it doesn't work so it sucks.

2. InventoryWhile you have a good amount of inventory slots. Most things do not stack and if they do stack, they stack to a random number. Ore stacks to 5. Some bottle of wine etc. stacks to 2. One type of thread stacks to 2 while another doesn't stack at all. The unlocking runes don't stack at all. To make the inventory and looting stuff worse, when you loot something that can stack it doesn't so half your game time is stacking things in your bag to make space for other things.

3. CameraThis is a really bad camera angle for a game. You can't see anything in the distance. If you scroll out your camera somehow you can see even less. I have no idea why but it is true. Houses and mountains, etc. are invisible sometimes while they load in. Once when I loaded a save the world was black. The ui was there but nothing else.

4. Box unlocking gameIt is not a bad idea. But 3 different sets of runes that don't stack in your bags makes the whole thing a mess. One set of runes that could stack would make it much better.

5. Magic systemThe magic system is ok. I liked making my own spells out of the runes I found. But again these damn runes don't stack in your bag and you also keep the magic you make in your bag. I didn't play a mage like character. I had one spell that could pretty much kill anything I came across. It cost all my mana so I could only use it when I was full of mana.

6. CraftingI like the way crafting is done. But the problem with it is..... I found a level 9 axe with crafted bonuses in a box when I was level 2. You can't craft a level 9 axe until you are atleast Level 9 and I imagine or hope that I will get another weapon before I am level 9. I like the idea of making some pants over and over to get a rare pants but with the really bad inventory problems crafting is a huge chore.

7. The fighting is not great but it is ok and if it weren't for the other problems I would have finished the game.

8. The quests are ok. It is possible some are bugged. Maybe I am not a great explorer but I can't find a shipwreck anywhere northwest of the village.

I like this type of game but I cannot recommend this to anybody. Legends of Dawn has some good ideas but ruined them with really bad inventory problems and a bunch of things that either do not work or just make no sense.

This is not a game you want to purchase. I obtained my copy by participating in the kickstarter and have to say this is the first real disappointment I've had from the program. The game is quite buggy and prone to crashing as well as having a variety of technical glitches but beyond that the overall design is terrible. On the surface it seems like a pretty typical RPG. Kill things, find loot, gain levels. All pretty basic. But they have made some really poor decisions regarding skill progression, loot distribution, and risk vs reward calculations. Even were the game entirely free of bugs I would still strongly discourage anyone from purchasing this title because of these issues. It's like the designers never played an RPG before or just fail to understand the basic concepts.

There is an embryo of a good game here, and one day this game might actually turn out to be a worthwhile title, but as of right now (15th Jan 2014), it’s nowhere near a game worth anyone’s time.There are several issues with this title, but the main one is its horrible optimization. Even with all the graphics settings set to low, and shadows turned off, I hardly ever get more than 5 fps. When there are NPCs on screen, the frame rate drops even further. Reports on the forum seem to indicate that this is not just a problem that people with weaker computers have, nor is it a few isolated incidents, the game just does not run properly, even on high end machines. Then there are the bugs. During my short time in the game I managed to get stuck in a wall, I had a dialogue box open without anything in it and my character suddenly disappeared. Also, the voice acting is less than stellar, and the voice overs don’t always match the text on screen. It would have been better if they would have just gone with text and no voice overs. Pathfinding is also problematic. The character will just run straight towards where the game has decided that you’ve clicked (which is not always where you actually clicked), and get stuck on anything that comes in his or her way. This gets rather frustrating, and it would have been nice if the character would at least have been able to navigate around smaller objects Apart from that, there is not much I can say about this title, as just could not play it properly. Avoid it, at least until it has been fixed.

A very poor attempt at an RPG game. They try to pass off an unfinished badly designed program as "old school". Its not. Its just not. As a gamer who loved such treats as Morrowind and Diablo, Legends of Dawn stands out as a how to of how not to. Dont get this. Please. If its old school you are seeking...seek it elsewhere.

This game hurt me. It's a game I regretfully thumbed up in greenlight and foolishly bought on broken promises and standard expectations. Like functionality.I wrote a review on this in the discussions awhile ago, but noticed we now have a proper review system for games in the store. So here I am to explain to you why this game is not only not worth your time, but why you should be angry at people like me for greenlighting it.

First, we'll start with what the game gets right. It has some pretty nice music. Really good music, actually, that I'd love to get on a CD. And... that's about it.

Nearly every other aspect of this game is either underwhelming, flawed, badly designed, non-sensical, or just plain broken. The biggest issue this game has been suffering, from day 1, is the framerate. It is absolutely unbelievable how wretched it is. I kid you not when I say, the biggest struggle you'll have in this game is walking through town. Just about everywhere you go in this game the framerate is insultingly bad. I don't know whether to attribute it to poor optimization, or the fact that the developers attempted to seamlessly stream the open-world in this game. The only time the framerate wasn't an issue was in dungeons.

The game is hack/slash, but is so underwhelming that it's almost not even worth mentioning. The animations are terrible. There is no impact on your weapon. Enemies feel unbalanced because the progression and pacing in this world is terrible. The only thing kind of cool about combat are the spells (which you can make, like a fireball or acid ball), which do feel impactful. Unfortunately, the effects themselves look like something ripped out of a game from the 90's. They are HIDEOUS! The monsters were also fairly unimpressive, with only a few standing out here and there (like the tree monsters).

Quests are boring, unemmorable, and sometimes not clearly layed out or explained for you. There are no interesting people in this game. I can not remember a single name from any of the npcs, or MY character for that matter. If there's a main plot, it seems to get lost at some point. The whole purpose of the game seems to be to explore every single inch of the world to find artifacts to reforge The Dawn (no, I still don't know if it's some kind of physical artifact or abstract idea of enlightenment), to save the world from... uhhh... darkness? The game really doesn't do a good job of explaining wtf is going on. Voice acting is terrible and rarely there. There are no npc companions of any sort, making the whole game feel like a lonely experience. Oh, and there's no interesting loot.

The game is full of non-sensical design choices that are either there to waste your time or piss you off. Your inventory is too small. Not because loot fills up quickly in your inventory (which it does), but because you have to devoute 1/3 or even more of it to these runes that you use to open up chests in this ridiculous mini-game that requires you have the runes in order to open the chest, which makes the keys in the game worthless and makes me question the sanity of everyone in this world who uses these runes to lock their chests. Water kills you if you walk too deep into it. Apparently your character is such an incompetent soldier that they can't swim a few feet back to shore. Traps in dungeons can be dangerous in the beginning of the game, but just became minor nuisances. Some of them are unavoidable, and others are literally there just to waste your time. When I had a cage drop on me, I thought I was getting captured by a villain or something and waited a whole minute for something to happen. Turns out the door on the cage could just be opened without anything. Does that make ANY sense to you? The most annoying design choice, however, has to be the traveling. There is no fast travel, and this game is fairly big in terms of size. So getting around is padding in itself. Also, no tutorial. The devs demand players look at the manual, which I find downright silly in a modern game.

Oh, and this will make you laugh. I reinstalled the game a second time after I quit on my first attempt to play it all the way through just so I could give a full review of the game. Guess what? IT DIDN'T SAVE! I had to start all over again!

Legends of Dawn was marketed as an oldschool rpg with no handholding; a concept I was too young to appreciate, but wasn't curious about. What I found was terrible game design/optimization; a boring story (if there was ever one to begin with); and that I was robbed 27 hours of my life at the end. The game was so bad and broken that I just couldn't bring myself to go all the way through. Game sits on a 1/10, with perhaps a chance to get a 2 or 3 when (if ever) it is fully optimized; and that's me being generous. It is a game that completely wastes everyone's time. You can get way better rpgs for less if you look around. Avoid this title, or send it as a gift to your worst enemies on steam. I, for one, am done with it.

I normally only give a game a review if I like it. I figure, to each their own, and maybe I just didn't like a game because it wasn't for me - so why waste my time writing up a negative review?

In its current state, I don't think you should buy this. Plain and simple. I take the Metascores with a grain of salt, but this one really lives up to the score. Overlooking the graphics, the game just isn't up to par. Constantly having to click to move (can't just hold the mouse button down), while trying to avoid getting your character stuck on who-knows-what in the process, is just painful.

I like isometric RPGs (Diablo, Baulder's Gate, Torchlight, etc), and I figured I'd finally give this game a try since it got buried with a bunch of other games from some bundle.

The first NPC you see after spawning asks you to get your gear from a chest on the ship. Is it the ship directly in my field of view, right behind the NPC? My gut says "yes," but my character couldn't seem to board that sucker. I could manage to click him to the top of the plank, and then I was met with an impenetrable wall. After about 5 minutes of clicking around, mucking around on the dock, and coming back, I was able to finally get on the ship by clicking near the crate on the downward plank. I have no idea how or why it worked, but it did. Now where's that chest with my gear? I dunno. And don't get me started on stairs - traversing any non-level surface is going to make you want to jab an old #2 pencil in your eye and break it off.

This really should have been an Early Access beta release, as the game does have some bugs and glitches, and doesn't feel stable enough for the retail market. I wish the dev team luck, and I really hope they can make this game rise from the ashes, because there's a lot of potential awesomeness here.

Another sad kickstarter/greenlight failure. Game is largely empty like a single-player MMO also rough and unpolished on every level. Next to no story or interesting characters. Only interesting design decision is from my point of view the unexplained items you pick up but some people might also hate that. Sadly can not recommend the game to anyone. Stay away.

I usually refrain from giving negative reviews to anything, but this one made me personally message all of my friends which had the game on their Wishlist.Lots of great ideas, but an extremely poor implementation.They should officially apologize to anyone who backed them on their Crowdfunding. It shows the clear flaw on Greenlight, where you vote a game up or down based on what it should be, and not on what it is.

This Diablo-like game is as repetitive as it gets, and does nothing to guide you, as a player. Your first character will probably be a bad one since there's no way to understand anything on the beginning. But that doesn't mean you'll have to restart, the game is rather easy and simplistic under its "Complexity Hood," that is but an illusion coming from the game's incompetent contextualization.

In the end, it is another 'click until its dead, repeat', and an easy one. The combat is slow paced and monotonous. The enemies are always simple and their AI is just plainly bad. The interface is just impracticable, to take an item out of a container is probably the first challenge of the game when you start to play. The game's camera is probably the worse I've seen in, long, long years.

The game has the clear symptoms of an ambitious design. But unmet ambition means nothing. It is probably the worst RPG game I've played since I first laid my hands on the genre 15+ years ago, and I've been through a lot of them.

Kickstarted this, so I was able to play hot off the presses- As soon as it loaded, I wasn't impressed. The intro loading screens lagged and glitched, some of the hair models look way misaligned, and there's no real introduction to the game- I had (and still have!) no idea what I'm supposed to be doing.

Now, months later, I think to myself "Well, they've patched things, maybe it's better." It isn't. This game wasn't worth the fifteen or twenty I paid for it, and I pity those who only went higher in kickstarter tiers.

The bulk of my criticism can be summed up with the following words: unfinished and horribly under polished piece of crap. To elaborate: the game has low res textures, horrible frame rate, ugly character models, a simplistic and boring combat system, needlessly complex game mechanics, tons of bugs, and is generally devoid of any gameplay polish.

This game had tons of promise; but somewhere along the way the devs seemed to lose their drive. Bugs galore in the early version of the game drove many players (including me) crazy. In good faith we waited, and waited, and waited for improvements that just never came. Do not waste your money on this game.

I load the damn thing for the cards, watch the generic intro about some dawn thing that was shattered and thus sentients are like... lets start killing each other, that sounds blah... I get into the game and what strikes me is how shoddy the design and look of the game is, I mean one thing is to have an outdated engine, another is to make everything look like crap and just badly done.

Well as underwhelmed as I was at this point I created my character and tried to make him look as disgusting as possible (the game does do this well) and then I start my NEW ADVENTURE and... CRASH!!! Tried another time just for fun. Good thing I got this game as a free extra bonus in some bundle. It isn't worth bothering with unless they pay you to utterly waste your time.

Game Mechanics are very bad controls are bad you have to constantly click where to go instead of ebing able to walk while holding the left button down which other RPG games allow...While running you might notice FPS drops/ the game glitching a bit...

Combat is aslo awefulll...

I read the bad reviews about the game but stilll chose to give the game a chance which i regret..At the Start you get some information and all but when looking through crates and all. then you find out that most crates in the begining are locked with some sort off spells which the game does not explain at all how to get passed... (you will figure out eventually how to get past that

inventory is just... well you collact itmes adn then you have to manually press sort button to make sure the itmes are the correct places aswell for wepaons it doesnt really say if it is 1h or 2h sometimes its says 1h but not all the time

The whole world in general is not quite good IMO.. IF you want a RPG that looks similar to this but actually works and got everything you need + more then i woul recomend games like Titan Quest and maybe Path of Exile